Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Music is the universal language of mankind.

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Learn to labour and to wait.

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As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

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The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret longings that arise, Which this world never satisfies! Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy, no, not one!

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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

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Today is the blocks with which we build.

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Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

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Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

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Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

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The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

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This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

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Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.

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All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

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And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

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If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

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All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!

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The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

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